ODC 2008 - What session I am taking...

Some of you are thinking. Great! The Microsoft Office Developers Conference is coming. What classes should I take? Well, I don't know what to say for you, but for me, I am taking the below classes. Maybe that will give you some ideas!

Note: The below tracks are abstracts from the track owners respective blogs.

Track	Session	Speaker	Abstract
Karthik’s Track - Architecture
	An Architectural Overviews of the Microsoft Office System and OBAs	Javed Sikander, Senior Director - Platform Architecture (Microsoft)	A broad end-to-end Architectural Overview of the Microsoft Office System as a platform for building collaborative business solutions and rich IW user experiences that integrate deeply with an organization’s core operational LOB systems.
	Architectural Patterns for integrating Line of Business Systems with the Microsoft Office System	Scot Hillier	Architectural patterns to integrate LOB systems with the Microsoft Office System to build rich collaborative, contextual, and role based user experiences to access LOB metadata, data, and processes.
	OBA User Experience Patterns	Steve Fox, Program Manager (Microsoft	Patterns & best practices to deliver compelling user experiences in OBAs by leveraging the Microsoft Presentation technologies and frameworks  (Web – ASP.NET, SharePoint Portals, AJAX, SilverLight; Rich Client – Office, WPF, Windows Forms; Mobile user experiences)
	Architectural Patterns for BPM in Office Business Applications	Ed Hild and Alex Starkyh, Senior Solution Architects (Microsoft)	Architectural patterns & best practices to integrate comprehensive BPM capabilities in OBAs by leveraging the Microsoft BPM platform offerings (Windows Workflow Foundation, BizTalk, SharePoint Workflows, Windows Communication Foundation)
John’s Track - Real World
	Building High Performance Solutions on MOSS 2007	Andrew Connell - MVP and SharePoint Development Champion	Performance should be one of the top areas of focus on everyone's mind when embarking on a Internet facing MOSS 2007 site. In this session we'll look at the built-in caching capabilities added to the latest release of the SharePoint platform, including disk-based and page output caching. In addition we'll take a look at various hot-button issues developers should be aware of when developing components for a public site built on MOSS 2007. Topics include object model techniques, how to properly manage memory to avoid the dreaded OutOfMemory exception, key sizing numbers to keep in mind when architecting your implementation and minimizing the page payload to speed up those page load times. After this session, you'll be armed with the power to create high performance and scalable solutions in MOSS 2007.
	MOSS Interoperability with SAP – "Connecting LOB Platforms to MOSS to Drive Business Value	Drew Naukam, VP, Microsoft Strategic Service Line, and Ryan Clay and Sean Jones, Enterprise Architects, Hitachi Consulting	This presentation and demo will show the audience how to build composite applications in MOSS that require bi-directional interaction with SAP data.  The presentation includes demos of solutions developed for Ticketmaster and Tyson Foods, and discuss the business scenarios that drove each project.
	Building dynamic business applications that integrate seamlessly with MOSS, InfoPath and SAP.	Technical - Anthony Petro or Business – Dave Marcus	Discuss the automation of business processes and creating composite applications collaboratively between IT and the business with Microsoft and K2. K2 black pearl facilitates collaborative application assembly using Microsoft tools including the Internet Explorer, Visio, SharePoint, and Visual Studio.  Applications can be built that span line of business systems using visual tooling and out-of-box integration with technologies such as BizTalk, MOSS, Office and SAP. The platform is built and runs on .NET 3.0, demonstrating the power of WF, K2 and the Microsoft stack of technologies to deliver comprehensive platform wins. This session will include examples of how K2 has extended Microsoft products and technologies at more than 1500 companies in 45 countries by helping customers to address real-world business challenges at companies like Del Monte, Eidos (creator of Tomb Raider – Lara Croft), and Pfizer.

Comments

[yman]

In the new version of odc++, file information in transfer window for files not beeing currently downloaded but is waiting, in my opinion i think is a good thing. You can get it from here: ODC++

[Matt Moore]

Anyone attended PDC last week?